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The Progressives. By Samara Schreier and Rachel (Zee-Zee) Fischer. What is a Progressive?. Progressives are people who want to make change from 1900 to the mid 1940s wanted change in factories Wanted to help women, children, immigrants, and other factory workers being treated harshly.
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The Progressives By Samara Schreier and Rachel (Zee-Zee) Fischer
What is a Progressive? • Progressives are people who want to make change • from 1900 to the mid 1940s wanted change in factories • Wanted to help women, children, immigrants, and other factory workers being treated harshly
Department of commerce and labor • Helped corporations clean up things that made them look bad like lawsuits • Started in 1903
National Child Labor Commitee • Against oppressive conditions including child labo • Started in 1905
Industrial Workers of the World • Part of Radical Union • For solidarity, strikes against harsh conditions, and if necessary, sabotage and violence All slides about federations continued efforts into twentieth century.
Lawrence Strike of 1912 • Included hundreds of women • Protested a coat factory
Causes • Eighteenth and nineteenth amendment • America went from farming to city society • Trouble with Yankee Protestant that were middle class
Roosevelt Taking Action • Was president during time of Progressives • Extended power of the Executive Branch and government for the help of the economy • Didn’t use laissez-faire attitude • First president to assign the government a direct role to the people
End Results • Females educated in women colleges that were created in the nineteenth century • WTUL and NCL wanted fix male owned garment factories where females were abused THE END